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The unit commitment problem (UC) is crucial for the operation and market mechanism of power systems. With the development of modern electricity, the scale of power systems is expanding, and solving the UC problem is also becoming more and…
The unit commitment problem is an important optimization problem in the energy industry used to compute the most economical operating schedules of power plants. Typically, this problem has to be solved repeatedly with different data but…
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